Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine, allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Re...
Star Wars™: Dark Forces Remaster has been brought to life by the team at Nightdive Studios, fully remastered through its proprietary KEX engine, allowing the game to run on modern gaming devices at up to 4K resolution at 120FPS. New and returning players will enjoy Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster’s upgraded gameplay, high-resolution textures, enhanced lighting and rendering, and support for gamepads.
The original 1995 Star Wars: Dark Forces raised the bar for FPS games, offering players a significant degree of movement and interactivity, a large selection of items and power-ups, and engaging environments.
In the first Star Wars FPS video game, players assume the role of Kyle Katarn, a defector of the Galactic Empire turned mercenary for hire. Katarn joins the Rebel Alliance’s covert operations division tasked with infiltrating the Galactic Empire, where he discovers the secret Dark Trooper Project. The development of this powerful new series of Imperial battle droids and power-armored stormtroopers stands to strengthen the Empire’s grip on the galaxy unless Katarn and the Rebel Alliance intervene.
Key Features:
All fourteen original levels, featuring Star Wars™ worlds and capital ships
Use your ability to jump, duck, and crawl to solve puzzles and defeat enemies
Your Personal Digital Assistant provides you with in game information such including map, inventory, and mission briefing
Engaging first-person ground combat featuring ten weapons and twenty types of enemies
Up to 4K 120FPS visuals
Advanced 3D rendering enables updated lighting and atmospheric effects
Modern gamepad support adds a new weapon wheel, and rumble
Controller Support - vibration and gyro controls
A variety of power-ups are made available to the player, including health, shields, weapons and ammunition
For combat, the player may use fists, explosive landmines and thermal detonators, as well as blasters and other ranged weapons
Includes immersive environmental puzzles and mazes
I enjoyed my time with DF Remaster. I loved the original of this game and still have the CD. I enjoyed all the extras that came with game also. Vault stuff that had a game renders, concept art and the playable omitted Avenger level.
The gameplay is great and looks fantastic on my 4k screen. The cut scenes are also very nicely rendered. However, the game does have some graphical issues. Such as looking up to shoot at a target. The camera goes into a fish eye like lens, which can be a little off putting. Particularly if your a gamer that FPS games can make you queasy after a bit. Also, sometimes, an enemy will appear right in front of you when there wasn't an enemy there a few seconds ago.
That said, I would certainly recommend this game to any who enjoy FPS games, Star Wars (Lucas Era), or Good Old Games.
Really like the option to keep the cutscenes unaltered while keeping the gameplay changed. Just wish there were more achievements, or at least one for finding every secret in the game. Hope Jedi Knight gets a remaster, next.
I have been playing with TheForceEngine. It's ok, but this one paid is just better. First, there is out of the box controller support. Works great on MSI Claw. Second, all graphics (hud, sprites) are consistent high res and quality. Menus are great, options are well thought. The only thing missing is better MIDI support, like AWE or Roland SC-55.
Hmm... I was expecting around $20 for this one. $30 is too much.
Great game though, even the old version of it on The Force Engine. I think I will wait for a sale on this one though. Love the game, own the original, have Force Engine, but need it to say $19.99 first.
Played: Version 1.0.4 (11 days old - only version available at the time of writing)
PC used: R5 5600x / RTX 3060 (12gb) / Win 10 Pro 10.0.19045
I played the original DF on PS1 back then and it was a joy to see it again with a fresh coat of paint, controller support, lots of settings to tweak the audio and visuals (even the crosshair shape and color), achievements (which helped me discover something I missed all those years ago), bonus material like concept art and even the 1995 CES demo! No crashes, only one or two textures had a weird flicker but regardless very well done and I loved how I could swap between the remastered and softrware render graphics on the fly.
9.5/10
